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3 | 31% | 8 | Upsets a kayak, for example | |
Upsets Alice For Example Describing Poetry Crossword Clue
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We think the answer is "ELEGIAC" which means:
- adjective
- • Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy adjective satellite
- • Expressing sorrow often for something past noun
- • A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter.
An example sentence would be:
- • "She wrote an elegiac poem to mourn the loss of her beloved dog."
- • "The photograph captured the elegiac beauty of the sunset."
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